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Title: Whaddyacallit #463 - Sports Custom based on a 1949 Plymouth, built by a Studebaker engineer.
Post by: Ray B. on March 13, 2010, 08:41:18 AM
(http://autopuzzles.com/RayB.stuff2/wdyci463.jpg)

Ever seen this ?

If you did, please respond below and let us know what is the car posted here.

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Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Oguerrerob on March 21, 2010, 02:50:24 PM
Looks like Lincoln Zephyr 40
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on March 21, 2010, 06:49:49 PM
Looks like, but nothing more...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on March 25, 2010, 06:45:05 PM
Free for all
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 27, 2010, 06:47:44 AM
Was it a Studebaker before this happened?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on March 27, 2010, 08:31:16 AM
No, but you did spot correctly some Studebaker parts on that car.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: metalshapes on March 29, 2010, 01:23:25 AM
I have it as a Plymouth Sports Custom.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: mymokke on March 29, 2010, 10:13:57 PM
Well, I don't know how much Plymouth is really in there, but, the tail lights ARE genuine 1949 Plymouth.
They are just like mine.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on March 30, 2010, 01:11:55 PM
Yes, metalshapes is right, that's the name it has where I found it.
However, metalshapes, please give us the builder and the rest of the story.

Locked for him one week.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 31, 2010, 05:16:49 AM
A week?! ;D

Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on March 31, 2010, 10:28:13 AM
I like to think that people happen to spend some time far from their computer.
He's got the car, it's obvious.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: metalshapes on April 01, 2010, 12:41:32 AM
Thanks, but I think its somebody else' turn to finish this one.

I've searched quite a bit, but I dont think I can find the rest of the info...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 01, 2010, 07:02:26 AM
While we wait...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 01, 2010, 11:38:35 AM
Go on Paul, since he says so. You'll get a point each in the end, since metalshapes gave the correct name (if I may say so). I can't access the original page with the car in it.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 01, 2010, 12:05:13 PM
I think we will keep on waiting, since a found lots of pics but no more details... :-\
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 02, 2010, 03:25:13 AM
I found the details again.
So, still open for everyone, and a second point.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 02, 2010, 07:28:13 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on April 02, 2010, 03:25:13 AM
I found the details again.
So, still open for everyone, and a second point.
Do they come from a big site, dedicated to custom cars, with thousands of pictures?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 02, 2010, 08:32:19 AM
Nope if I read you well. But from another dedicated website that you surely know. I still can't access to the page I'd seen, but I found another way around.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 18, 2010, 05:58:52 AM
Front page featured, and Tweeted, too.

http://www.autopuzzles.com
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 18, 2010, 07:41:12 AM
 ::)
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 18, 2010, 09:15:32 AM
You don't want it featured?  ???
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 18, 2010, 05:33:22 PM
Of course I want it. I guess the rolling eye hasn't the same meaning for everyone.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Oguerrerob on April 20, 2010, 09:09:41 AM
Skyline X50, early 50's USA
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on April 20, 2010, 01:04:49 PM
Nope. I already did the Skyline before, and that's not it (see the pics: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8032.0 )
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on July 04, 2010, 11:59:57 AM
Let's go to less crowded places
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 10, 2010, 07:13:41 AM
Is MANN the name you are looking for?
The car is licensed as a 1949 Plymouth and was built by a Studebaker engineer.
Plymouth frame, Chrysler wire wheels, Studebaker grille, Studebaker dash, 1941 Studebaker front fenders and headlamps, custom hood. In the mid-1970s, a Ford 250-cu.in. straight-six was installed. The car has a (removable) hardtop and side curtains but no convertible top. There is no trunk opening. Access to the trunk is by removing the bench seat back.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #463
Post by: Ray B. on October 10, 2010, 07:49:31 AM
Paul, it's no wonder to me that it would you who should eventually find these informations.
You' re right about it all of course, except maybe that in my source Charles Mann, from Elkhart, Indiana, is only noted as the "previous owner". It doesn't say that he's the man who built it. The engine that equipped this car when built is not known.
So, if you agree, we'll attribute the car to this mysterious "Studebaker engineer".

as I said before, one point for metalshapes and one for you.